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EUDAT works directly with a wide range of research communities to deliver common data services to support and resolve their research data management challenges. To be successful in this ambitious initiative, EUDAT uses novel methods to involve all the stakeholders, both in the discussions to determine the required services, and in the process of designing, developing and implementing those services. These methods include involving communities in the core Research, Innovation & Development activities, known as EUDAT Core Communities, as well as collaborating with communities through specific data Pilots.This booklet gives an overview of EUDAT’s 7 core communities and 24 data Pilots currently running.

Why do we need a European Open Science Cloud for ResearchAnchor? The creation of a trusted environment for hosting and processing research data to support EU science in its global leading role will help overcome many key challenges currently facing scientific disciplines.

EUDAT works directly with a wide range of research communities to deliver common data services to support and resolve their research data management challenges. To be successful in this ambitious initiative, EUDAT uses novel methods to involve all the stakeholders, both in the discussions to determine the required services, and in the process of designing, developing and implementing those services. These methods include involving communities in the core Research, Innovation & Development activities, known as EUDAT Core Communities, as well as collaborating with communities through specific data Pilots.This booklet gives an overview of EUDAT’s 7 core communities and 24 data Pilots currently running.

Authored by the Research Data Working Group of the Digital Information Initiative of the Alliance of German Science Organisations, the "Research Data at your Fingertips" position paper describes the current situation in Germany and identifies a number of challenges to lay the foundations for the discussion of and reflection on the future handling of research data.

It makes 6 recommendations to support the provision of an adequate research data infrastructure for researchers in Germany in the near future:

EUDAT’s mission is to design, develop, implement and offer “Common Data Services” as they have been introduced in the “Riding the Wave report [1]” to all interested researchers and research communities. According to this report these services will be offered through the Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) which is being identified by many data different initiatives at community, research organisation and cross-border level (disciplines and countries).

Data Access and Reuse Policies (DARUP) is an important area for a number of reasons. Policies must be made clear to potential users of data infrastructures, both the “data providers” – who need to know how their data will be made accessible and who will be able to access it – and the “data consumers” – who need to know about access or reuse restrictions before starting work with any of the data.

Highlights:
Legal aspects handled in a presentation from Pavel Kamoski. Explaining about the data privacy concept. Surprisingly it seems anonymisation of data is in itself already a possible illegal action
We were told about the workflow plans in EUDAT 2020 WP8 especially in relation to Dynamic Data by Erhard Hinrichs
Emanual Dima had a presentation explaining about the need and possibilities to shield the GEF from the deployment environment and use of a software called “Docker”
Yann le Franc talked about aggregating data from multiple neuro-science repositories using semantic web-technologies

EUDAT, the European Data e-Infrastructure Initiative, is working at a European level, in a global context. Maximising the value of twenty-first century digital research is no longer a regional, nor even a national, challenge, and Europe is leading by example in the construction and realisation of global research data infrastructure.

The European Commission has established various pan-European initiatives to develop e-infrastructures to support the work of European research communities. It has been a challenge for these initiatives to find effectiveways to engage with the communitiesin the process of developing the infrastructure services. Too often this engagement has been reduced to the existence of a forum where communities are supposed to give advice on the services being developed, which often has had little practical effect on the development of the actual services. On other occasions, e-infrastructures have been dominated by a limited number of stakeholders – which has sometimes lead to over-representation from a single community or institute. Consequently, although the services that were developed fitted the needs of that particular community or institute, it was subsequently hard to extend those services so as to be of benefit to other research communities with different requirements.

During the service building process and roll out of the Safe Replication (B2SAFE) service dynamic data has been a challenging subject. It is difficult to keep consistency between data objects, which are eligible to change and are replicated in a distributed environment. This use case is prominent within the seismology community (EPOS) dealing with sensor - generated data in earthquake sensitive areas across Europe and data streams that are generated by mobile devices at unpredictable times and in unpredictable order (CLARIN).

Semantic Annotation is one of the new interest fields, discussed in detail at the working group workshop (Barcelona, Sept 2013) and for which EUDAT is building a new building block. During the 2nd EUDAT Conference, 28-30 October 2013–Rome, Italy, the New Services track the results from the Semantic Annotation track at the working group workshop; the LTER/LifeWatch use case, which has been the initiator on semantic annotation work in EUDAT; a new initiative on ontologies (EUON); and the work done on this subject in EUDAT were presented.

The goal of the EUDAT Workshop on Workflows was to understand the needs of the community experts on common services, how to orchestrate data processing and how scientific workflows can make use of EUDAT services. Support for workflow provenance and services to register and describe workflow components and make them discoverable, referable (e.g. assigning PIDs to components) and to capture best practices were intensively discussed by the 20 international experts in the field of “Scientific workflows” present.

Workflows are a joint research activity in EUDAT in which communities (e.g. ENES and CLARIN) are assessing solutions in which community workflows can make use of the EUDAT services. During the 2nd EUDAT Conference, 28-30 October 2013–Rome, Italy, the New Services track included a specific session on Workflows
where the results from the working group workshop (Barcelona, Sept 2013) were presented followed by the ENES and CLARIN use cases on workflows and a proposal fo r a generic execution framework (GEF).